Through Thick and Thin

Ai Qian sat behind the bar in the store in a daze, until the colleague at the side called him the third time, then he suddenly recovered and raised his head to agree.

"Ai Qian, why are you in a daze?" The colleague teased, "It's time to change shifts. Is it possible that you still want to continue to be on duty for me?"

Ai Qian touched his hair in embarrassment, went to the staff room to change his work clothes, turned on his mobile phone, and sent a message to Chen Yuan: "I'm off work."

Soon, Chen Yuan replied to him, asking him to wait for him in the shop for a while.

The night when I was with Chen Yuan more than a month ago, until now, Ai Qian still feels as if he is dreaming when he recalls it.Sitting in the staff room, he watched the chat with Chen Yuan that was pinned to the top on his mobile phone, and he still had a lot of sweetness in his heart.

Recently, Chen Yuan's work is not as busy as it was a while ago, and half of them will pick up Ai Qian when he changes shifts in the evening, have dinner with him, and then send him home.

Not long after, Chen Yuan called him and told him that he had arrived at the door. Ai Qian took his things and ran out of the door. When he saw Chen Yuan's car waiting on the side of the road, he opened the door and sat in, with a joyful voice: "Let's go Where to eat? My colleague told me that there is a new hot pot restaurant in the food street. It is not expensive and tastes good. Shall we try it?"

Chen Yuan smiled slightly: "Another day, my aunt stewed soup for me today, and some side dishes, delivered to my home, let's go home and eat."

This is the first time that Ai Qian has visited Chen Yuan's house since they dated for more than a month.

Ai Qian's heart suddenly became nervous, and he couldn't help thinking wildly in his mind, is there anyone else in Chen Yuan's family?Is his family there?Will Chen Yuan let him stay tonight?Will they...

Chen Yuan didn't hear Ai Qian's answer, and turned to look at him: "Huh? How is it?"

"Ah? Yes!" Ai Qian came back to his senses, blushing and nodded, "Is there anyone else in your family? Can I just wear this?"

"There is also a nanny." Chen Yuan smiled, "You can wear whatever you want."

The two came to Chen Yuan's home. Chen Yuan lived in a high-rise duplex facing the river in the third ring road. The layout was spacious and bright. The floor and walls were covered with off-white marble with light golden patterns, and the curtains and carpets were also in warm colors. Yes, very soft and warm, very homely.

Ai Qian stood on the balcony, looking at the city scenery outside the high-rise, because this building is all duplex houses, and each floor is much higher than ordinary one-story houses, and the view from the balcony is not blocked at all.

"Wow, the scenery here is beautiful." Ai Qian sighed, and then sighed regretfully, "My house lives on the third floor, and I can't see anything when I look out."

The nanny aunt helped them cook rice and porridge, and the two had a simple dinner.Ai Qian put down the soup bowl in his hand, and heaved a sigh of satisfaction. Outside the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, he could just see the street lamps lit up one after another on the street. Against the lights of the surrounding buildings, the lights of Wanjia made the night of the city It also became alive.

Ai Qian thought in a trance, this should be the feeling of his ideal home.

After the meal, the two sat on the sofa, ate fruit and watched TV, but Ai Qian's mind was not on the TV at all. Every move of Chen Yuan beside him made him highly nervous, and he was always thinking that Chen Yuan would let him know later. He went home or stayed overnight.

At this time, Chen Yuan's cell phone rang, and Ai Qian was startled. He hugged the pillow and turned his head to the side in embarrassment. Chen Yuan picked up the phone. It seemed that it was a matter of work. The subordinate sent him a document and needed him. Take a look now.

After finishing the phone call, Chen Yuan said, "I'll go back to the study to look at the documents. It won't take too long, just wait for me a little bit, and just come up to me if you need anything."

Ai Qian nodded and looked at the time. It was already past eight o'clock in the evening. He saw Chen Yuan's nanny cleaning the kitchen, and suddenly remembered something. milk.

After getting an affirmative answer, Ai Qian said that he wanted to use the kitchen, and he would clean it up by himself later.

Chen Yuan went to deal with official business, and Ai Qian was still waiting, why not make some small desserts suitable for eating after dinner, and send them to Chen Yuan later.

Ai Qian is very good at cooking. He is good at both Chinese and Western food, especially Western-style desserts. He usually makes cakes, biscuits and other gadgets at home. During the Chinese New Year, his relatives especially like to bring their children to his house to play. , because children love to eat what Ai Qian makes.

Ai Qian found fresh milk and gelatine sheets, some starch and maltose, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Chen Yuan still had matcha powder at home, so he simply made a plate of matcha milk jelly in a small milk pot.

Ai Qian took a cherry from the fruit plate, cut the fruit and placed it on the side of the plate, squeezed some condensed milk for decoration, put the fork, and walked upstairs with the plate.

Ai Qian knocked on the door of the study room, and after hearing Chen Yuan's answer, he gently opened the door, poked his head out, walked in with a plate, and said, "Chen Yuan, I made you a plate of fresh milk jelly, You try it."

Ai Qian put the plate on the corner of the desk, Chen Yuan stopped what he was doing, looked at the plate of dessert that was obviously put his heart into it, and was unexpectedly lost in thought.

Even though Chen Yuan has lived here for a long time, he still doesn’t feel like a real home. He just leaves here to go to the company every day and come back to rest at night. It seems that this place is no different from any hotel he stayed in when he was on a business trip. .

However, at that moment, Chen Yuan suddenly felt that something he had always wanted to think about suddenly became warm.

Chen Yuan wants to have a family that he can really devote himself to, a place where he can relieve his daily fatigue, and he wants to have someone who can wait for him to come back amidst the same lights.

And this person seemed to have finally made him wait.

Seeing that Chen Yuan kept silent, Ai Qian was a little disappointed and said, "Don't you like eating this?"

Chen Yuan stood up suddenly, stretched out his hand and hugged Ai Qian into his arms, Ai Qian was taken aback for a moment, still didn't understand why Chen Yuan did this suddenly, Chen Yuan held his cheek again, bowed his head and kissed him.

Ai Qian's cheeks were slightly hot, and he closed his eyes to respond to Chen Yuan's kiss.After the kiss was over, Chen Yuan hugged him and said, "Stay tonight."

Ai Qian's breathing stagnated slightly, and finally nodded.

After autumn, the weather gradually turned cooler. Ai Qian packed coffee and bread for customers with a smile, and stretched himself.

Taking advantage of the absence of customers, Ai Qian took out his mobile phone. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Chen Yuan went on a business trip a few days ago and said he could come back tonight. Ai Qian happened to be on the night shift today, so he was in the store wait for him.

Unconsciously, he and Chen Yuan have been dating for more than half a year. Ai Qian has the key to Chen Yuan's house, and Chen Yuan's house has gradually acquired a lot of his things. In addition to formal clothes, there are more casual things in the closet. Compassionate, there is also a new set of toiletries in the bathroom.

Chen Yuan must be tired after coming back from a long distance today. Ai Qian thought in his heart what to do for Chen Yuan after going back for a while, and then he heard the notification sound at the door of the store, and a customer came in.

The guest in front of him looked like a white-collar worker who had just finished work, and looked quite young, probably not much older than himself.The other party first asked if it could be delivered to a nearby hotel, Ai Qian replied yes, and the other party then ordered more than ten meals.

It is quite rare to receive such a large order at such a late hour. Ai Qian said with a smile while placing the order on the computer: "Mr. is a white-collar worker, right? You are so busy that you get off work so late."

The two chatted briefly, Ai Qian handed him the receipt, and suddenly saw a familiar car parked in front of the store from the corner of his eye, he recognized that it was Chen Yuan's car, and immediately asked his colleagues to stand for him for a while , trot out happily.

Chen Yuan got out of the car and embraced Ai Qian. Ai Qian said: "You are back, I can leave work after I tell my colleagues. Have you eaten tonight? I'll go home and cook something for you? "

Looking at the joy in Ai Qian's eyes, Chen Yuan's fatigue from the business trip was swept away in an instant, his heart softened immediately, he kissed Ai Qian's forehead, and said with a smile: "Well, good."

"Manager Chen?"

A voice that was already slightly blurred in memory sounded behind him. Chen Yuan turned around and unexpectedly found that the person standing there was Lu Chuiqing who hadn't seen him for several years.

Lu Chuiqing has hardly changed, and the years of time have left no traces on him.

Chen Yuan was slightly surprised: "Mr. Lu?"

"Long time no see, Manager Chen." Lu Chuiqing smiled, "I'm here on a business trip. I just finished talking and wanted to have a late-night snack. I happened to see a dessert shop here, so I came in."

Today, when seeing Lu Chuiqing again, Chen Yuan can already greet him with a smile like an ordinary acquaintance: "Long time no see."

Ai Qian was looking at them, and his eyes suddenly fell on Lu Chuiqing's hand. He hadn't noticed just now that Lu Chuiqing was wearing a ring on his ring finger, obviously a married person.

What Chen Yuan said to him last year suddenly reflected on Ai Qian's boy, his eyes widened slightly, could this person in front of him be...

"It's almost time for me to go back to the hotel, so don't bother me."

Lu Chuiqing said goodbye with a smile, he waved at the two of them, turned and left.

It wasn't until Lu Chuiqing walked away that Ai Qian asked worriedly: "Chen Yuan, is he... the one you mentioned?"

Chen Yuan didn't hide anything from Ai Qian, and admitted it readily. He looked at the obvious nervousness in Ai Qian's eyes, stared at him with his head down, and said with a smile: "But it's all over. Now I just want to go home and be with you." You eat together."

Seeing Chen Yuan staring intently into his eyes, Ai Qian's eyes were stained with a smile again, he nodded, stood on tiptoe, and kissed his lips.

Not long after Lu Chuiqing returned to the hotel, the food from the dessert shop was delivered. He took his share back to the room, took out a sandwich wrapped in paper, and opened the hotel's news to read.

The grilled rock bread in the sandwich exudes a tempting aroma of cheese, which is particularly appetizing. Lu Chuiqing took a bite, and the smell of cheese, fresh salad dressing, and eggs and bacon just filled his mouth, and suddenly came from his stomach I didn't get used to it for a while.

Lu Chuiqing covered her mouth and looked at the sandwich in her hand with a frown. The delicious food that was quite appetizing suddenly tasted bad in front of his eyes. He took it easy for a while, but the feeling of wanting to vomit became stronger and stronger.

Finally, Lu Chuiqing couldn't bear it anymore and ran to the bathroom, and vomited on her stomach by the toilet.

After vomiting, Lu Chuiqing pressed the flush button, leaned weakly by the sink, and rinsed his mouth.

Eat something bad?still……

Lu Chuiqing's expression gradually became a little more disbelieving, he couldn't help stroking his lower abdomen with one hand, nervousness, surprise, bewilderment, joy, all kinds of emotions intertwined in his eyes.After reacting, he turned and ran into the bedroom without saying a word, put on his coat hastily and went out.

Lu Chuiqing walked to a nearby pharmacy that was still closed, bought a pregnancy test stick and went back.Although it was not the first time Lu Chuiqing used this, but this time she was particularly nervous.

After the waiting time passed, Lu Chuiqing pinched the location of the pregnancy test stick showing the result with both hands, his heart was pounding with nervousness, he closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, counting down to three, two one in his heart, moved his fingers, and opened his eyes At first glance, there are two small bars printed on the pregnancy test stick.

Lu Chuiqing's breathing was stagnant, and she couldn't help standing up from the sofa, staring at the test result in her hand, for fear that she might make a mistake.

He is really pregnant!

The author says:

I'm going to have a baby!